Animal Sales
OUR ANIMALS
Buying From Us
Animal sales at the ranch are truly important. The selling of certain heritage breeds helps to preserve them, keep breeding stock plentiful for local and national breeders, as well as preventing inline breeding. The educational benefits of such breeding and sales reaches not only students, but the curious tourist as well. Funds of animal sales go directly into the operations of the non-profit Historic O'Keefe Ranch and Interior Heritage Society, and these revenue numbers are submitted to the government each year in our application to maintain farm status.
Jacob Sheep
O'Keefe Ranch has its own lineage of Jacob Sheep, a breed believed to be over 2,300 years old. Though once endangered, that is no longer the case thanks to a significant effort from farmers around the globe. In 2016, the O'Keefe Ranch sent to Israel a few of the Jacob sheep to help reconstitute their local population.